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Ok, I read elsewhere in this thread that apparently you can stream directly from a NAS, which is definitely an awesome use case. XBMC wins!

But why? Handbrake can convert most video formats to something Apple TV-compatible and play them on the Apple TV through iTunes.

I had a lot of fun with this.

That being said, I do wonder if LinkedIn is the right venue. The premise is very similar to something like "hot-or-not," and I'm just not sure that the "professional" crowd on LinkedIn is going to take to it.

Maybe you can consume another social network's API with a younger audience though.

So does anyone have any actionable, constructive advice for alex_c in promoting his app store app?

Here are a couple of things I can think of:

* Make some friends on Twitter; give out free copies using App Store promo codes

* Submit your game to the various iPhone game review sites

Definitely looks like a joke given the BusyBox banner.

However, the technology described is something that is completely technically possible -- ARP spoofing on an open wireless network and performing MITM content modification.

The document says "UNCLASSIFIED" in the footer of every page. Has this really been "leaked?"

I knew something was up when he said it costs >1mil/year to host the git-scm site.

Looks like there might be a fix here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1315761/server-certificat...

Yep. SSL cert warning on Safari for iPhone.

Good point, I came here looking for the answer to this too. Hopefully kn0thing or pg can shed some light as to why this was such a horrible idea?

I just started reading Security Analysis by Dodd & Graham. I heard it was a classic book on investing.

Given what you've said, should I bother reading it if picking at random is going to work out better in the end? Have you read it and can make a recommendation as to its usefulness? In the first few chapters they identified the issue of massive amounts of information, but the book still charges on.

If you do think it's still worthwhile to continue reading it, do you have any suggestions for some introductory books that can help me understand some of the financial slang they use? :)

Has someone created an app/service to solve this problem (of finding designer co-founders) yet?

I feel like I've seen a few out there already, but none of them jump to mind enough for me to refer you to.

Not sure I'm sold. 3G on my iPad, iPhone in Charlotte is pretty awfully slow. I would be scrambling for my wallet if it was 4G/3G.

I wrote a tiny little thing (61 sloc) with Shoes that is cross-platform. http://github.com/jroes/pomodoro

Your company overclocks your workstations? What's the story behind that?

Are you thinking of this thoughtbot post?

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/159805334/make-your-test-s...

I just put this into a unit testing presentation we did at my dayjob.

Where do you work? That's awesome.

I've always thought IRC would be a great platform for internal communication.

How many times do we open up our typically single person-to-person IM clients to figure out where to eat lunch?

How distracting is your IM client compared to IRC?

I suspect some of the younger companies with money to burn use Campfire to fill these kinds of needs.

Anyone have a transcript? I tried, I really did.

Sounds like they have an extremely talented tech team. I'm not sure I find what they are doing to be particularly groundbreaking or interesting, though.

Looks like he's not ready to give out the source yet.

"The code of my demos will be released. Soon, but not right now."

http://twitter.com/paulrouget/status/18584252076

Trying to figure out how to get my mom out of these cash advance schemes and chronic overdrafts due to her lack of understanding of how banking works. Then reworking her finances into something manageable so she can manage to buy groceries.

Got some google maps integration going for one of my web app ideas this morning while on the train. Hoping to knock out the remaining stuff on the way home.

What am I not working on? Anything related to my day job, even though I'm at the office while I type this.

Seconding Tender. Beautiful and simple.

Was the "get-off-my-lawn" pun intentional?

You should be able to drive it to a power outlet or docking station for charging. Or maybe it should drive there itself?

Sounds interesting. Can you give an example of how this might work? It hadn't occurred to me that you could do such a thing without physically exchanging money. Everything I can think of off the top of my head would involve tracking code that presumably the customer wouldn't be able to validate is legitimately tracking leads.

Instead of charging a flat setup or monthly fee, have you thought about pivoting your business model so that customers can order through your app, and you charge a percentage fee to the restaurant owner?

I think skeptical restaurant owners would choose that no-risk option, and you'd probably make more money. Restaurant owners who think it'll be successful in making sales would probably be willing to pay a decent sum per month.

I agree with the other commenter that you are probably not charging enough. I think this kind of service has high value if it can demonstrably increase sales.

Great idea. A friend and I were talking about the need for this kind of product a few days ago. Your implementation looks very nice.

Funny title, interesting article. Is this really HN material though?

His talk is at Ignite RailsConf. Talks are limited to 5 minutes. Slides are advanced every 15 seconds.